A mockingbird which frequented the grounds of a gentleman in Virginia was noted not only as a most mischievous fellow, but as one of the most divine songsters of his tribe.
The mystification of the dog appeared to afford the mockingbird the most delight, more particularly when not only one dog, but several would collect under his cage, whining and barking, vainly seeking to locate their masters.
The Western Mockingbirdis found in southwestern United States, north to Oklahoma and California.
The mockingbird doubtless surpasses it in variety and profusion of notes; but falls short, I imagine, in sweetness and effectiveness.
In this country the mockingbird is the only regular night-singer we have.
She could no more give herself seriously to the demands of such a profession than a Southern mockingbird can take a serious view of music.
You would write as your Southern mockingbirdsings his "green-tree ballad"; the thought of that bird mewed in a city cage and taught to perform by rote and not for spontaneous joy, troubled me not a little.
The moon is full again," he continued, "and last night I heard a mockingbird in the garden.
By now the moon was high, and the mockingbird in the wood across the water was singing madly.
Our ordinary yew is not a tree at all, but a low spreading evergreen shrub that one may step over; and as for the nightingale, if they have the mockingbird in Kansas, they can very well do without him.
The "French mockingbird" is no mockingbirdat all, but the logger-headed shrike, or butcher bird.
The real mockingbird deserves an article all to himself.
But no figure came to meet her, only a firefly twinkled in the distance, and above her head a mockingbird gave a sleepy chirp.
He's a nice little chap, though he doesn't know a mockingbirdfrom a jack rabbit.
He then placed two fingers in his mouth and imitated the cry of the mockingbird with such perfection, that the soldier looked up at the trees.
Suddenly the mockingbird sung twice, and its plaintive and soft song resounded melodiously through the air.
Oft in the stilly night," when the moonlight sheds a silvery radiance about every sleeping creature, the mockingbird sings to his mate such delicious music as only the European nightingale can rival.
The only sound was the song of a mockingbird guarding the nest on which its mate sat patiently with her wings spread over the little ones that the night air might not chill them.
It was so quiet that the chirp of a grasshopper close to Star's feet could be heard distinctly, and the song of a mockingbird sounded clearly from a nearby tree.
The mockingbird is a joyous, rollicking, marvelous songster; the wood thrush moves the very soul with his ecstatic notes; the clarin equals the latter in quality, with a much larger variety.
The resemblance he is said to bear to the mockingbird I have never been able to see.
Mockingbird food he despised, bread and milk he left to his cage mate, apples were too hard to please him; nothing appealed to his taste except the tenderest of Bartlett pears, and of these he condescended to eat one a day.
High the silver ibis flies-- Silver wings in silver skies; In the sun the Saurian lies: Comes the mockingbird and prates To the boatman at the gates Of the Ocklawaha.
Otherwise, we would have proceeded on Stemmons to Mockingbird Lane, which would have been the direct route to the airport.
The Mockingbird thrashes about in his cage; the Brown Thrasher on the ground under the bushes; the House Wren does the same, and the tiny Winter Wren gives his tail a jerk instead, for it is not long enough to really thrash.
What mammy has said about the Mockingbird in his summer home is true.
Mother had a Mockingbird in a cage once, but it got out and flew away to live in the park, she thought.
The Mockingbird can imitate many sounds, but all these come directly from the bird; while the Chat can perch on a twig above your head and give a whistle that seems to come from a bush across the road.
Though he is a good deal smaller than the true Mockingbird of the South, they have many points in common.
What would you say of the people of the North if they slaughtered your mockingbird to eat!
Remember this proportion: The Robin : The North :: The Mockingbird : The South.
Thrasher and Mockingbirdappointed to teach play and sex.
Thrasher and Mockingbirdface people on playground at Miakwa'orve.
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A species of mockingbird in particular, larger than ours and a splendid songster, made itself so familiar as to be almost a nuisance, hopping on the table where the collector was writing, and scattering the pens and paper.
The famous mockingbird of the Southern States belongs to a genus which has but two other representatives in the Atlantic States, namely, the catbird and the long-tailed or ferruginous thrush.
A mockingbird was singing from out the boscage of the laurel near at hand, and the night wind was astir.
There was a long pause while the mockingbirdsang with an exuberant magic which might baffle the emulation of any ada-wehi of them all.
The mockingbird paused to listen to a note from the hermit thrush in the dense rhododendron, still splendidly abloom on the mountain slope.
Because of its incomparable medleys and ability to mimic other birds, whistles, clocks, and bells, the mockingbird is the most renowned singer of the Western Hemisphere.
The brown thrasher is more retiring than either the mockingbird or catbird, but like them is a splendid singer.
The mockingbird sang on, but the garden appeared to darken and grow cold.
Colonel Churchill drew a long sigh, wiped his face with his handkerchief, and looked miserably up to the green boughs where the mockingbird was singing.
About them was the Seven Sisters rose, and above towered the tulip tree with a mockingbird singing in its branches.
And about the poor boy who lived on the next place--and the apple tree and the little stream where you played, and the mockingbirdhe gave you.
This species is often known as the Mountain Mockingbird because of the brilliance of its song, a very varied performance, long continued and mocking that of many other species.
I could not find the mockingbird in song, though it breeds in the blue-grass counties.
The brown thrasher is an advance upon the catbird, and the mockingbird is an advance upon the brown thrasher in the same direction.
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